glibc 2.3.2 and threads (fwd)

Andreas Jaeger aj@suse.de
Tue Apr 8 18:08:00 GMT 2003


Yaroslav Popovitch <yp@sot.com> writes:

> Hi! I was checking glibc-2.3.2 source tree and did not found linuxthreads 
> directory. As I understood it is separate package now.

linuxthreads was always a separate tarball that needed to be
downloaded.

> I heard  that development of NGPTL is stopped and it should be replaced by 
> NPTL it. Is NPTL included in glibc-2.3.2? 

No, NPTL is not included in any released glibc version yet.

> Also as I understood NPTL must be supported by kernel.

Both NGPT and NPTL need kernel support.  The support is in the latest
Linux 2.5.x kernels,

Andreas
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